Book clubs offer a great opportunity for friends and book lovers to gather (whether virtually or in person) to catch up and discuss a good book. There’s only two problems with this activity and they seem to come up at every meeting: what book should the group read next and how do you find enough... Continue Reading →
Beginning with the book The 100-Year-Old Man who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson, a new kind of protagonist started appearing in popular fiction; someone with a lifetime of experience. For those unfamiliar with the book, Jonasson’s novel centers around Allan Karlsson who escapes his senior’s home on the eve of his hundredth birthday... Continue Reading →
Ta Da! The much-anticipated second novel from Jonas Jonasson. Was it worth the wait? Absolutely! Jonasson seems to have hit on a formula that works: a main character who always has the best and worst of luck, leading to marvellous adventures and near catastrophes at every turn, whilst having an impact on world politics. Nombeko... Continue Reading →
This book was recommended to me by a patron but I think I would have grabbed it off the shelf regardless. Everything about it says, happy, happy, happy: the title, the bright orange colour of the cover, and the whacky story itself. All the way through reading it I thought “this would make the perfect... Continue Reading →
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